Scott Base Redevelopment CEE environmental monitoring report: Year one (January 2019)
An understanding of the soils and the underlying permafrost surrounding Scott Base is important to detect impacts of environmental change or human activities, such as the redevelopment of Scott Base, on the unique soil communities and on geomorphological processes. The Scott Base Redevelopment (SBR)...
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ftunivwaikato:oai:researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz:10289/15035 2023-12-17T10:20:55+01:00 Scott Base Redevelopment CEE environmental monitoring report: Year one (January 2019) O'Neill, Tanya Ann 2019 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10289/15035 https://doi.org/10.15663/ERI.Report.139 en eng Environmental Research Institute, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand ERI report O’Neill, T. 2019. Scott Base Redevelopment CEE environmental monitoring report: Year one (January 2019). Environmental Research Institute Report No. 139. Client report prepared for Antarctica New Zealand. Environmental Research Institute, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. 52pp. ISSN 2463-6029 (Print), ISSN 2350-3432 (Online). 2463-6029 https://hdl.handle.net/10289/15035 doi:10.15663/ERI.Report.139 Report 2019 ftunivwaikato https://doi.org/10.15663/ERI.Report.139 2023-11-21T18:25:56Z An understanding of the soils and the underlying permafrost surrounding Scott Base is important to detect impacts of environmental change or human activities, such as the redevelopment of Scott Base, on the unique soil communities and on geomorphological processes. The Scott Base Redevelopment (SBR) is the largest project ever undertaken by New Zealand in Antarctica. It is a requirement of the Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty and New Zealand's Antarctica (Environmental Protection) Act (1994) that an environmental impact assessment be completed prior to any activity taking place in Antarctica. A Comprehensive Environmental Evaluation (CEE) of the project is being completed in order to support decision-making with an assessment of predicted environmental impacts linked with the redevelopment. A comprehensive monitoring programme was set up to verify the accuracy of the environmental impact assessment presented in the CEE and to detect unforeseen impacts or impacts that are more significant than expected. The soil monitoring sites were established in January 2019 to assess current levels of biodiversity and abundance of invertebrates and microbial communities, along with soil chemical characteristics, and visual characteristics within the wider Scott Base redevelopment area. These 25 soil monitoring plots establish a baseline against which future changes can be detected. My role in the project was to determine the chemical characteristics of soil from the monitoring plots, undertake visual site assessments around each monitoring plot, measure depth to ice-cement, and install 12 passive dust samplers adjacent to the monitoring plots. This report will give background information on the general characteristics of Scott Base soils, including information on active layer, permafrost, soil moisture, soil organisms, and evidence of natural and human induced changes to the soil-permafrost environment. This will be followed by an explanation of the methodology, results and discussion, on my aspect of this ... Report Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice permafrost The University of Waikato: Research Commons Antarctic New Zealand Scott Base ENVELOPE(166.766,166.766,-77.849,-77.849) The Antarctic Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments 5 1 |
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An understanding of the soils and the underlying permafrost surrounding Scott Base is important to detect impacts of environmental change or human activities, such as the redevelopment of Scott Base, on the unique soil communities and on geomorphological processes. The Scott Base Redevelopment (SBR) is the largest project ever undertaken by New Zealand in Antarctica. It is a requirement of the Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty and New Zealand's Antarctica (Environmental Protection) Act (1994) that an environmental impact assessment be completed prior to any activity taking place in Antarctica. A Comprehensive Environmental Evaluation (CEE) of the project is being completed in order to support decision-making with an assessment of predicted environmental impacts linked with the redevelopment. A comprehensive monitoring programme was set up to verify the accuracy of the environmental impact assessment presented in the CEE and to detect unforeseen impacts or impacts that are more significant than expected. The soil monitoring sites were established in January 2019 to assess current levels of biodiversity and abundance of invertebrates and microbial communities, along with soil chemical characteristics, and visual characteristics within the wider Scott Base redevelopment area. These 25 soil monitoring plots establish a baseline against which future changes can be detected. My role in the project was to determine the chemical characteristics of soil from the monitoring plots, undertake visual site assessments around each monitoring plot, measure depth to ice-cement, and install 12 passive dust samplers adjacent to the monitoring plots. This report will give background information on the general characteristics of Scott Base soils, including information on active layer, permafrost, soil moisture, soil organisms, and evidence of natural and human induced changes to the soil-permafrost environment. This will be followed by an explanation of the methodology, results and discussion, on my aspect of this ... |
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Scott Base Redevelopment CEE environmental monitoring report: Year one (January 2019) |
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Scott Base Redevelopment CEE environmental monitoring report: Year one (January 2019) |
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Scott Base Redevelopment CEE environmental monitoring report: Year one (January 2019) |
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Environmental Research Institute, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand |
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ERI report O’Neill, T. 2019. Scott Base Redevelopment CEE environmental monitoring report: Year one (January 2019). Environmental Research Institute Report No. 139. Client report prepared for Antarctica New Zealand. Environmental Research Institute, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. 52pp. ISSN 2463-6029 (Print), ISSN 2350-3432 (Online). 2463-6029 https://hdl.handle.net/10289/15035 doi:10.15663/ERI.Report.139 |
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